How to Give Up Being a Mason

 

 

 

First Voice Over: (Eric Idle) What other ways are there of recognizing a mason?

 

(Shot from camera concealed in a car so we get reactions of passers-by.  In amongst the throng four city gents are leaping along with their trousers round their ankles. They are wearing bowler hats and pinstripes. Another city street or another part of the same street. Two city gents, with trousers rolled up to the knee, approach each other and go into the most extraordinary handshake which involves rolling on the floor.  Next we see Graham with reindeer antlers on his head and a large Miss America type banner across his chest that reads “I’m a Mason”)

 

Second Voice Over: (John Cleese) Having once identified a mason immediate steps must be taken to isolate him from the general public. Having accomplished that it is now possible to cure him of these unfortunate masonic tendencies through the use of behavioral psychotherapy. (we see a cartoon city gent locked into a cell) In this treatment the patient is rewarded for the correct response and punished for the wrong one. Let us begin. Would you like to give up being a mason? Think carefully. Think. Think.

 

Cartoon City Gent: No.

 

(A large hammer attacks the city gent.)